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NATURE NOTE

... NATURE NOTE Seen in garden on Leigh Hill, near Taunton. September 10th. small squirrel with grey back and tail, red paws and white 'shirt front': and on September 11th large adder, 18-20 inches long. U. M. Edmonds. ...

THIS WEEK’S COMPETITION. Our reader© will notice from announcement in another column that we propose ..

... Our reader© will notice from announcement in another column that we propose introducing feature into this paper the form Nature Note*?, and we have pleasure in offering Guinea this week for the most useful paragraphs for insertion under that new heading ...

A Strange Robin

... A Strange Robin Nature Note I have recently seen a tiny about the of a wren. but n*/. having the upturned in general shape like robin. wit'a bark chequered dark brown I:?:* a hedge-sparrow's. and brlgi'i* rod breast like robin's. It appeared several time* ...

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. Every Reader of this Paper who is interested In Nature Study, and who desires to see this column continued, is invited to send an occasional contribution. GoLDFiycHEs’ pair poldfinches will rai&e three or four broods in favourable ceasem ...

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES Every reader of this paper who Is interested in Nature Study, and who desires to see this column continued, is invited to send an occasional contribution. Somerset’s Lotus. H.P..” in his Nature note last week, mentioned the rosecoloured flowering ...

STARLINGS AND ANTS

... parasites which infest these birds. While on the subject of strange beliefs, with regard to swallows. I should like to add a Nature Note from Boswell’s life Johnson I came across recently, where Boswell quotes Johnson as saying: Swallows certainly sleep all ...

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. Every Reader of this Paper who Interested in Nature Study, and who desires to see this column continued, is invited to send an occasional contribution. Red Primroses? How Produced? —The follow ing paragraph appeared in the Daily Chronicle ...

Death of Mr. Henry Phippard Well-Known Taunton Naturalist A Weekly Contributor to the Herald We deeply regret to

... Canalterrace, Taunton, of Mr. Henry Phippard. who. for many years, and right up to last week, had contributed a weekly Nature note in the Nature Column of tne Somerset County Herald over the initials, H.P. He was 79. and leaves a wife and adopted son ...

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES Every reader of this paper who is Interested in Nature Study, and who desires to see this column continued, is invited to send an occasional contrl* button. THE PASSING OF H.P. Every week for many years past in this column there has appeared ...

NATURE NOTES

... tao — NATURE | NOTE ARIES, | Every Reader of this Paper wi bf i — desires to see this cotumn co! is invited to send an tribution. ing than The ' Waen. Leaves Do Not Fatu.—Le illusion. sometimes scen still clinging to a wi 100! severed’ branch when a! ...

Changing Habits

... CHALLENGED Twice in an average lifetime have I been specially interested in the menu 'of the blackbird. Once, when writing nature note. I classed him with the ' thrush as a consumer of ; wcil of worms, and. of course, fruit. and was challenged on this [assertion ...